Zombie Road (Book 1): Convoy of Carnage by Simpson David A

Author:Simpson, David A. [Simpson, David A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2017-02-02T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Gunny was asleep in his bunk. Just by the sheer dumb luck of pulling his rig in for a service, it was safe in the mechanics bay and he got all the comforts his truck had to offer. He’d told Cobb and Martha they were welcome to use it but they’d refused. Scratch said he would use it, as a matter of fact he needed it, because of his arm and all.

Gunny just gave him the finger as he had walked towards his truck and his comfortable bed. There was a knocking on the side of the sleeper. He was awake instantly, listening. It wasn’t a lot lizzard, that much he knew. Not here inside the bay.

“Gunny.” He heard. It sounded like the British guy.

“What’s up?” he said. No drowsiness or confusion in his voice.

“That Wire Bender bloke needs you, mate.”

Geez. Doesn’t he ever sleep? “Tell him I’m on the way.”

When Gunny walked into the shop a few minutes later fully dressed, armed and alert, Cobb and Griz were there also. Wire Bender was the only one looking frazzled and red-eyed. Stabby was on one of the computers loading up USB sticks.

“He’s here, Sir. Transferring the coms now.” Wire Bender said and slid the big silver table top Ham radio microphone over the counter towards Gunny.

He just looked at it and held his hands palms up in a “What?” gesture

“It’s General Carson at NORAD,” Cobb said around his unlit Lucky Strike.

“Who? What’s he want with me?”

Cobb gestured to the mic, “Just answer the radio, Gunny,” he said.

Looking a little frustrated at the lack of answers, he hit the push to talk button and said “This is Gunny. Go ahead.”

“Is this Sergeant First Class Meadows formerly of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment?” the voice came back through the mike.

What did these guys want? Gunny thought. The old anger in him rose up to the surface faster than he thought possible. He went from frosty to insta-pissed in half a second. These officers and political appointees had ruined his life for a while and being called by his old unit and rank brought it all back.

He and his wife had a long term plan worked out that included him retiring after 20 years, drawing a nice pension and finding a quiet little town to live in. A place where he could get a job as a deputy or patrolman and she could find work at the school.

There they would reap the benefits of a comfortable life after the grueling years of active duty. The long separations, all of the missed birthdays and Christmases and Thanksgivings. The constant danger he found himself in obeying orders and doing ops all around the world.

It would have all been worth it with a small town life, where all he had to do was break up a few bar fights on the weekends, maybe catch a speeder every once in a while and get in plenty of fishing. Hang out at the local café with the rest of the town folk.

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